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Cellosaurus NCI-H249 (CVCL_A537)

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Cell line name NCI-H249
Synonyms H249; H-249; NCIH249
Accession CVCL_A537
Resource Identification Initiative To cite this cell line use: NCI-H249 (RRID:CVCL_A537)
Comments Problematic cell line: Contaminated. Shown to be a NCI-H69 derivative (PubMed=20143388). Originally thought to originate from the bone marrow of a male patient with small cell lung cancer.
Registration: International Cell Line Authentication Committee, Register of Misidentified Cell Lines; ICLAC-00334.
Population: Caucasian.
Omics: Genomics; DNA methylation analysis.
Omics: Phenotyping; Drug screening.
Omics: Transcriptomics; Microarray.
Omics: Transcriptomics; miRNA profiling; Microarray.
Omics: Variations; SNP array analysis.
Derived from site: Metastatic; Pleural effusion; UBERON=UBERON_0000175.
Sequence variations
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:8975; PIK3CA; Simple; p.Gly106_Arg108del (c.317_325delGGCAACCGT); Zygosity=Heterozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:9884; RB1; Simple; p.Glu748Ter (c.2242G>T); ClinVar=VCV000013078; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
  • Mutation; HGNC; HGNC:11998; TP53; Simple; p.Glu171Ter (c.511G>T); ClinVar=VCV000634771; Zygosity=Homozygous (from parent cell line).
Disease Lung small cell carcinoma (NCIt: C4917)
Small cell lung cancer (ORDO: Orphanet_70573)
Species of origin Homo sapiens (Human) (NCBI Taxonomy: 9606)
Hierarchy Parent: CVCL_1579 (NCI-H69)
Sex of cell Male
Age at sampling 55Y
Category Cancer cell line
STR profile Source(s): ATCC=CRL-5827

Markers:
AmelogeninX
CSF1PO10,12
D5S81811,13
D7S8209
D13S31712
D16S53911
TH018,9
TPOX10
vWA16,17

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Web pages Info; ATCC; -; https://www.atcc.org/en/support/technical-support/faqs/nci-h249-atcc-crl-5827
Info; ICLAC; -; https://iclac.org/wp-content/uploads/Cross-Contaminations_v13_distribution.xlsx
Publications

PubMed=6148444; DOI=10.1093/jnci/73.4.801
George Morstyn, Angelo Russo, Desmond Niall Carney, Essam Karawya, Samuel H. Wilson Jr., James B. Mitchell;
Heterogeneity in the radiation survival curves and biochemical properties of human lung cancer cell lines.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 73:801-807(1984)

PubMed=6713399
Steven T. Rosen, James L. Mulshine, Frank Cuttitta, Joseph Fedorko, Desmond Niall Carney, Adi F. Gazdar, John D. Minna;
Analysis of human small cell lung cancer differentiation antigens using a panel of rat monoclonal antibodies.
Cancer Res. 44:2052-2061(1984)

PubMed=2985257
Desmond Niall Carney, Adi F. Gazdar, Gerold Bepler, John G. Guccion, Paul J. Marangos, Terry W. Moody, Mark H. Zweig, John D. Minna;
Establishment and identification of small cell lung cancer cell lines having classic and variant features.
Cancer Res. 45:2913-2923(1985)

PubMed=3335022
Michael C. Alley, Dominic A. Scudiero, Anne Monks, Miriam L. Hursey, Maciej J. Czerwinski, Donald L. Fine, Betty Jane Abbott, Joseph G. Mayo, Robert H. Shoemaker, Michael R. Boyd;
Feasibility of drug screening with panels of human tumor cell lines using a microculture tetrazolium assay.
Cancer Res. 48:589-601(1988)

PubMed=1845952; DOI=10.1002/1097-0142(19910201)67:3<619::AID-CNCR2820670317>3.0.CO;2-Y
Jos L.V. Broers, Eddy P. Mijnheere, Mirjam Klein Rot, Gert Schaart, Alfred Sijlmans, Otto C. Boerman, Frans C.S. Ramaekers;
Novel antigens characteristic of neuroendocrine malignancies.
Cancer 67:619-633(1991)

PubMed=1320893; DOI=10.1159/000163712
Marken A.E. Verbeeck, Jack P.M. Elands, Lou F.M.H. de Leij, Charles H.C.M. Buys, Desmond Niall Carney, Gerold Bepler, Anton J.M. Roebroek, Wim J.M. van de Ven, J. Peter H. Burbach;
Expression of the vasopressin and gastrin-releasing peptide genes in small cell lung carcinoma cell lines.
Pathobiology 60:136-142(1992)

PubMed=8806092; DOI=10.1002/jcb.240630505
Ruby M. Phelps, Bruce E. Johnson, Daniel C. Ihde, Adi F. Gazdar, David P. Carbone, Patrick R. McClintock, Ritva Ilona Linnoila, Mary J. Matthews, Paul A. Bunn Jr., Desmond Niall Carney, John D. Minna, James L. Mulshine;
NCI-Navy Medical Oncology Branch cell line data base.
J. Cell. Biochem. Suppl. 24:32-91(1996)

PubMed=8806103; DOI=10.1002/jcb.240630516
Bruce E. Johnson, Edward Russell, Alfreda M. Simmons, Ruby M. Phelps, Seth M. Steinberg, Daniel C. Ihde, Adi F. Gazdar;
MYC family DNA amplification in 126 tumor cell lines from patients with small cell lung cancer.
J. Cell. Biochem. Suppl. 24:210-217(1996)

PubMed=11030152; DOI=10.1038/sj.onc.1203815
Sanjay Modi, Akihito Kubo, Herbert Kazuto Oie, Amy B. Coxon, Ahad Rehmatulla, Frederic J. Kaye;
Protein expression of the RB-related gene family and SV40 large T antigen in mesothelioma and lung cancer.
Oncogene 19:4632-4639(2000)

PubMed=20143388; DOI=10.1002/ijc.25242
Amanda Capes-Davis, George Theodosopoulos, Isobel Atkin, Hans Gunther Drexler, Arihiro Kohara, Roderick A.F. MacLeod, John R.W. Masters, Yukio Nakamura, Yvonne A. Reid, Roger Robert Reddel, Robert Ian Freshney;
Check your cultures! A list of cross-contaminated or misidentified cell lines.
Int. J. Cancer 127:1-8(2010)

PubMed=27247353; DOI=10.1093/jnci/djw122; PMCID=PMC6279282
Eric C. Polley, Mark W. Kunkel, David Evans, Thomas E. Silvers, Rene M. Delosh, Julie Laudeman, Chad Ogle, Russell Reinhart, Michael Selby, John Connelly, Erik Harris ...Show all 18 authors... , Nicole Fer, Dmitriy Sonkin, Gurmeet Kaur, Anne Monks, Shakun Malik, Joel Morris, Beverly A. Teicher; Show fewer authors
Small cell lung cancer screen of oncology drugs, investigational agents, and gene and microRNA expression.
J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 108:djw122.1-djw122.11(2016)

PubMed=28766886; DOI=10.1002/cam4.1131; PMCID=PMC5548882
Beverly A. Teicher, Thomas E. Silvers, Michael Selby, Rene M. Delosh, Julie Laudeman, Chad Ogle, Russell Reinhart, Ralph E. Parchment, Julia Krushkal, Dmitriy Sonkin, Lawrence Rubinstein ...Show all 13 authors... , Joel Morris, David Evans; Show fewer authors
Small cell lung carcinoma cell line screen of etoposide/carboplatin plus a third agent.
Cancer Med. 6:1952-1964(2017)

PubMed=31803961; DOI=10.1002/jcb.29564; PMCID=PMC7496084
James L. Mulshine, Peter Ujhazy, Melissa Antman, Christine M. Burgess, Igor A. Kuzmin, Paul A. Bunn Jr., Bruce E. Johnson, Jack Alan Roth, Harvey I. Pass, Sheila M. Ross, Carolyn R. Aldige ...Show all 13 authors... , Ignacio Ivan Wistuba, John D. Minna; Show fewer authors
From clinical specimens to human cancer preclinical models -- a journey the NCI-cell line database-25 years later.
J. Cell. Biochem. 121:3986-3999(2020)

PubMed=32586373; DOI=10.1186/s13148-020-00876-8; PMCID=PMC7318526
Julia Krushkal, Thomas E. Silvers, William C. Reinhold, Dmitriy Sonkin, Suleyman Vural, John Connelly, Sudhir Varma, Paul S. Meltzer, Mark W. Kunkel, Annamaria Rapisarda, David Evans ...Show all 13 authors... , Yves Pommier, Beverly A. Teicher; Show fewer authors
Epigenome-wide DNA methylation analysis of small cell lung cancer cell lines suggests potential chemotherapy targets.
Clin. Epigenetics 12:93.1-93.28(2020)

Cross-references
Cell line collections (Providers) ATCC; CRL-5827 - Discontinued
KCLB; 90249 - Discontinued
Cell line databases/resources cancercelllines; CVCL_A537
Biological sample resources BioSample; SAMN03151645
BioSample; SAMN03151860
BioSample; SAMN03471746
Encyclopedic resources Wikidata; Q54907977
Gene expression databases GEO; GSM844646
GEO; GSM845545
GEO; GSM1887907
GEO; GSM1887989
Polymorphism and mutation databases Cosmic; 755460
Cosmic; 877204
Cosmic; 980931
Cosmic; 1006529
Cosmic; 1021857
Cosmic; 1032397
Cosmic; 2125249
IARC_TP53; 21566
Entry history
Entry creation06-Jun-2012
Last entry update10-Apr-2025
Version number35